Subtle Signs You’re Sabotaging Your Own Writing

​I read with interest an article from littlezotz.com (First Edition Design Publishing) about how writers sometime sabotage their own writing. The article included: Not preparing an outline, getting deadlines wrong, trying to do everything in the first draft and celebrating too early.
On reflection, I decided there’re many more ways writers sabotage their writing careers. As a public service to all writers I list some of them here:

• You wrote your Great American Novel on toilet paper, and it’s now worth more on eBay than on Amazon.
• All your work is obviously plagiarized.
• You call your agent an ass-**le.
• You refuse to write on any day of the week that has a D in it.
• You write in a language that you invented.
• You firmly believe that rules are meant to be broken; especially grammar, punctuation and spelling.
• You’re using invisible ink.
• Readers must use a decoder ring to read your writing.
• You’re using Snapchat to publish your writing.

I hope by identifying these self-destructive habits I have helped writers everywhere.